Symposia and school programming

• Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
• RA000-03-02-01
• English
• 11 cm of textual records37 video cassettes24 photographs : negatives15 photographs : slides3 audio cassettes
• Updated 4 years ago

Sub-sub-series consists of records documenting the organization of the Annual High School Symposium on the Holocaust. Prior to the opening of the VHEC, the annual symposium was organized by members of the Canadian Jewish Congress – Pacific Region’s Standing Committee on the Holocaust. In 1995, the responsibility for organizing the event was transferred to the VHEC and its High School Symposium Committee. In 2010, the Symposium Committee was disbanded and its activities brought under the banner of the VHCS’s Program Committee. From the first symposium in 1976 to 2017, the event was held at t...

• Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
• RA000-03-02-02
• English
• 4 cm of textual records4 photographs : prints754.1 MB of born-digital records2 videocassettes2 DVD-Rs1 mp3 file
• Updated 4 years ago

Records in this sub-sub-series are created and kept by members of the Outreach Committee and by staff of the VHEC and pertain to educational outreach programming on the subject of the Holocaust in BC. At the time of the opening of the VHEC, the Outreach Committee’s mandate was to provide knowledge of the events of the Holocaust to BC students, educators and special interest groups through eyewitness testimony. Committee members trained and scheduled docents and speakers to share their memories of the Holocaust, including experiences of discrimination, segregation, separation from and loss o...

• Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
• RA000-03-02-03
• English
• 13 cm of textual records38 photographs : prints21 photographs : negatives9 audio cassettes
• Updated 4 years ago

Sub-sub-series consists of invitations, correspondence, promotional materials, newspaper clippings, docent notes, teachers’ guide and other materials generated as a result of the organization of the Judgement on Nuremberg symposium and student mock trial school program presented by the VHEC in 1996. Mock trial school program was re-presented in 2008; records generated as a result of the organization of that school program included in sub-sub-series.